Since upgrading to Yosemite I've discovered a change in the print options within Preview. I always have the sidebar showing and that lets me go to a specific page without having to scroll through all the pages. The sidebar displays a series of thumbnails.

OK, in the past I could select a page from the sidebar, click print and one of the options was to print the page that had been selected in the sidebar. That options isn't there anymore or it's been moved and I just can't find it. Now I have to select Print/Pages change from ALL to SINGLE and then click up or down to get to the page I want. Default is Page 1 so if I want to print Page 47 that's a lot of clicking.

I really liked the option of selecting print the page that's already been selected in the sidebar.

Has anybody found where that old print option is or did Apple take it away from me?

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I've printed from Preview so rarely that I never noticed. It's print dialog (now, at least) is different from the more normal looking one in Pages.

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Aha. You may kick yourself when I reveal this trick:

There's a button in the Print dialog (in both Preview and Pages, so I suspect in Yosemite in general) that says Show Details/Hide Details. Details in this case means the old familiar print dialog box. It's not set to show the page you're viewing, but five tabs gets you to the first page in the range. If you do this a lot, you could make an Fkey to do the five tabs for you. You could even hijack the print dialog entirely and make ⌘P do ⌘P and then your macro, so one keystroke would put you in the field you want. Or you could be a little safer and make it option P or whatever. It's possible that AppleScript can extract the number of the page you've selected in Preview, then you could pass that to a macro. Maybe Automator could do this. I highly recommend Keyboard Maestro for such tasks.

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It's in Show Details. When Yosemite was loaded it must have gone back to the default which doesn't show the details. Once you click that (Show Details) the print option I want is there. It's been so long since I did that in Mavericks I just forgot how to set it up.

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Richard Serkes wrote:It's in Show Details. When Yosemite was loaded it must have gone back to the default which doesn't show the details. Once you click that (Show Options) the print option I want is there. It's been so long since I did that in Mavericks I just forgot how to set it up.

Has Show/Hide details been around that long? Where was I? I never noticed it before.

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs

Richard Serkes wrote:It's in Show Details. When Yosemite was loaded it must have gone back to the default which doesn't show the details. Once you click that (Show Options) the print option I want is there. It's been so long since I did that in Mavericks I just forgot how to set it up.

Has Show/Hide details been around that long? Where was I? I never noticed it before.

I don't remember when it was first introduced but i've used it for a long time.

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